Category Accountants/CPAs

It is almost tragic to see the CEO's of MYOB and Xero have a go at one another. They both seem to forget that what they call innovation may very well damage their clients business, at least in my opinion. Using any of these fragmented software solutions vs. an integrated, simplified business software solution, will create IT complexities that are hampering business. So - are you ready to simplify IT?

You would have thought that running a business is easy. I have something you want, I sell it to you and you pay me for it – that’s it, right? Wrong – there are so many other things to deal with apart from the ‘business deal’! These are the sort of things that make your…

Lowering the Tone Stella McCartney, who designed the Team GB Olympics kit, said ‘You don’t need to sacrifice style for sport’. Stella clearly wasn’t aware that my hapless, hopeless, fashion disaster of an agent, Tony Robinson OBE, was going to attend two weeks of the Olympics. I blame your London Mayor, Boris Johnson. He had…

Don’t believe all you read There is a better way to start up success than the business planning process. A lot of the same ‘must dos’, processes, are quoted by entrepreneurship academics, management gurus, glampreneurs and politicians as being needed for you to start and run your own business successfully. Training and supporting prospective entrepreneurs…

Who can you trust to help you to survive and thrive? There is a better way of getting help than from Government and Big Company funded start up and micro business support programmes. That’s not to say we don’t want their help and a lot of these free offers of help are good and needed.…

These days we hear much about business mentoring and business consultants and how important it all is to the survival of all SMEs/SMBs. I can’t help but wonder where it all went wrong? Business has always been surrounded by advisors, who could have helped, their accountants. Why this need for all this mentoring and consulting?…

Many moons ago we ran an article “Not all accountants are created equal“, a topic that is as relevant today as it was in 2006. And pricing of accountant services is at the centre of a little debate going on in the comments to this this article. But before you read on just answer a…

If you have decided to start your own business recently then this question has probably not even crossed your mind yet, but from a legal standpoint it is quite an important issue. The legal form that your business takes will affect how much tax you have to pay, determine who can invest in your business…

While most people in the UK, indeed globally, realise that thanks to big business, who file full accounts by the way, small business is in big trouble. However, some UK accountants obviously have nothing better to do than to contemplate making life just that little bit more, yes more difficult for small and micro business…

It was nice to meet Phil Woodgate and some of his colleagues again.My conversations of the evening have been focused around my changing attitude toward the accounting profession, and I was quite surprised to find that most of my conversation partners agreed with me on my assessment of the "backward looking profession" and it's damaging effect on very small business, which has been a constant source of concern for me in the past few years.... I for one, would prefer to live in London, where we can get up in the morning and have a smile about a serious point made the "Boris Way", rather than being embarrassed and upset by an intolerable and arrogant Mayor, who clearly does not understand even the basics of the problems we face in the future, a trait he shares with many in his party, especially when it comes to micro- and small business issues.All in, I enjoyed last evening immensely and thank AccountancyAge for putting up a great show.